November 18th, 2020Almost a third (31%) of healthcare professionals in South Africa have suffered verbal or physical abuse from patients, patients’ relatives or the public during...
Doctor organisations have called for immunity from prosecution to UK doctors forced to choose which patients to treat during the coronavirus pandemic, reports The...
October 28th, 2020Averaged out over the last 10 years Medical Protection has supported members with roughly one new case per month in South Africa that is criminal in nature and related...
Tensions between the SA Private Practitioner's Forum and the government are coming to a head over a dispute about payment and legal immunity when it comes to treating...
April 8th, 2020
The Medical Protection Society welcomes the Health Professions Council of SA’s updated guidelines on telemedicine, confirming MPS’s position that telemedicine...
With healthcare professionals’ personal and financial wellbeing being significantly impacted by the spread of COVID-19, Medical Protection Society has announced that...
March 25th, 2020
COVID-19 has thrown up a challenging array of medico-legal dilemmas for SA's healthcare professionals as they try to safe and effective care, writes Dr Graham...
February 19th, 2020
An MPS survey of South African doctors has found that the overwhelming majority have not undertaken specific training in record keeping and want more guidance, writes...
The international Medical Protection Society has thrown its support behind a petition calling for criminal charges to be dropped, in the interim, against two South...
September 18th, 2019
As provincial health departments try to claw back a R98bn national medico-legal bill, and amid doctor alarm over warnings that they could be held personally liable for...
